By Rachel Stretton: A man has been sentenced for causing the death by dangerous driving of a doorman from Biddulph.

Aliu Adeyemo, 29, from Coventry, pleaded guilty to the charge at Birmingham Crown Court.

He was given a nine-month suspended sentence and 200 hours of unpaid work.

He was also made subject to a curfew between 7pm and 7am for six months.

Mr Churchman was injured in September 2002 when Adeyemo deliberately drove his car into a group of people outside the former Place nightclub in Bryan Street, Hanley.

He suffered serious head injuries and never fully recovered, and died at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in July 2008.

Adeyemo was convicted of grievous bodily harm in 2003 and sentenced to three years in prison.